read from standard input

[waxen glacier]

what are diffrent ways to read from standard input (similar to getchar and scanf)?

[visual lagoon]

https://github.com/odin-lang/examples/blob/master/by_example/read_console_input/read_console_input.odin

Odin does currently have a scanf equivalent mainly because it's rarely a good thing to use for any practical purpose beyond quick bodges.